BREAKING: 2022 Fields Medalists Announced

Read extended Quanta profiles of each medalist

Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser Every four years, the International Mathematical Union honors the brightest stars in mathematics and computer science with the Fields Medal and (the newly renamed) Abacus Medal. Quanta profiled each of the 2022 winners announced today in Helsinki, Finland. 2022 FIELDS AND ABACUS MEDALS   In Times of Scarcity, War and Peace, a Ukrainian Finds the Magic in Math By THOMAS LIN and ERICA KLARREICH With her homeland mired in war, the sphere-packing number theorist Maryna Viazovska has become the second woman to win a Fields Medal in the award's 86-year history. Read the article 2022 FIELDS AND ABACUS MEDALS   He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He's Won a Fields Medal. By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ June Huh wasn't interested in mathematics until his sixth year of college. Now his insights connecting combinatorics and geometry have led to math's highest honor. Read the article 2022 FIELDS AND ABACUS MEDALS   Mathematical Connect-the-Dots Reveals How Structure Emerges By JORDANA CEPELWICZ With Hugo Duminil-Copin, thinking rarely happens without moving. His insights into the flow-related properties of complex networks have earned him the Fields Medal. Read the article 2022 FIELDS AND ABACUS MEDALS   A Solver of the Hardest Easy Problems About Prime Numbers By ERICA KLARREICH On his way to winning a Fields Medal, James Maynard has cut a path through questions about prime numbers that have stumped mathematicians for centuries. Read the article IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: THE JOY OF WHY   Can Computers Be Mathematicians? Podcast hosted by STEVEN STROGATZ A global, multidisciplinary effort is underway to write the essential axioms of math in a language that AI can understand. Hear Steven Strogatz interview Kevin Buzzard, one of the project's key contributors, on the latest episode of The Joy of Why. Listen to the podcast Read the transcript Follow Quanta Simons Foundation 160 5th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010 Unsubscribe | About Quanta Privacy Policy | Terms | Contact Us   Copyright © 2022 Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation